Disintegrate

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  • intransitive verb. To become reduced to components, fragments, or particles. synonym: decay.
  • intransitive verb. To lose cohesion or unity.
  • intransitive verb. To decompose, decay, or undergo a nuclear transformation.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to disintegrate.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To separate into component parts; reduce to fragments; break up or destroy the cohesion of: as, Tocks are disintegrated by frost and rain.
  • To break up; separate into its component parts.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To decompose into integrant parts.
  • transitive verb. To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of a hammer, frost, rain, and other mechanical or atmospheric influences.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To undo the integrity of, break into parts.
  • verb. To fall apart, break up into one's parts.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current
  • verb. break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity
  • verb. cause to undergo fission or lose particles
  • Word Usage
    "He created the Cabinet positions of Energy and Education, yet saw his one term disintegrate due to lack of experience."